One of the madrasas of the Registan, the center of Samarkand in the late-fourteenth century (Wikimedia Commons public domain image) It’s difficult to overstate the historical and cultural importance of the place where I’m sitting at this very moment. …
THE ONLY SHORTCOMING about great lives is that stories about them can be told only once. It is not so much the arc being familiar as it is the effect getting diffused. It is not so much the details being reiterated as the ingenuity of the biopic getting …
Dr (Prof) SL Bhyrappa was born on July 20, 1931, in Santeshivara village in the Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district in Karnataka. At a young age, he lost his mother and brother due to the bubonic plague. He did small and odd jobs and even collected …
'Phule', a biographical drama based on the 19th-century firebrand revolutionary couple Jyotirao and Savitri Phule, who lit the flame of girls' education in India and worked to uplift people belonging to lower castes, is an important film. While …
A pitch-perfect Pratik Gandhi performance underwires the intrinsic authenticity of Ananth Narayan Mahadevan's Phule. But more than anything else, it is the abiding pertinence of the film's theme that sets it apart from anything that Bollywood has …
By Dr. Gifford-Jones and Diana Gifford-Jone on April 25, 2025. Infections can change the trajectory of a life – and not always in for the worse. Patsy Cline, the celebrated country music singer, attributed her remarkable voice to an infection. “In …
In one of the most heartening scenes, days before he dies, Jyotirao Phule looks up at the sky, questioning God whether his doors would open for the lower caste people. He mentions how he's seen the temple closed for him and his community all his life. …
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Star cast: Pratik Gandhi, Patralekhaa, Vinay Pathak, Sushil Pandey, Darsheel Safary, Suresh Vishwakarma, Joysen Gupta, Alexx O’Nell, Amit Behl, Akshaya Gurav and Jayesh More Director: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan After facing controversies and headlines, …
Home Entertainment Phule movie review: Patralekhaa and Pratik Gandhi make it soar in not so typical Bollywood biopic Patralekha and Pratik Gandhi starrer 'Phule' is a historical biopic that gives and introduction to the lives of reformers Jyotirao …
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